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Description
Spinning spaceship for long term deep space missions. Uses KAS to extend/retract the habitat module from the main section. Use Persistent Rotation Mod to maintain rotation though time warps and leaving the ship.
Extend Procedure:
1. Attach KAS winchs to ports on habitat module.
2. Spin up ship using flywheels and/or RCS.
3. Decouple docking port connecting habitat module to main section.
4. Extend Winches
5. Switch a winch to docked mode
6. Pray to Kraken regularly that nothing goes wrong.
Retract Procedure:
1. Switch a winch to undocked mode, make sure you are controlling the main section.
2. Retract Winches to 0.6-0.8 m, make sure they are even.
3. Spin down ship using flywheel and/or RCS, docking port should reconnect once it spins down enough.
A mod rocket called Explorer 3. Built with 138 of the finest parts, its root part is dockingPortLarge.
Built in the VAB in KSP version 1.2.2.
Details
- Type: VAB
- Class: ship
- Part Count: 138
- Mods: 2
Mods
- Kerbal Attachment System
- Squad (stock)
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